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Is Tailwind overrated?

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Note-Taking

💡 Tailwind

• Wes: not a favorite approach, but certainly understand why so many people use it.
• Scott: appreciates that it provides a system for efficiency and consistency, but prefer other tools in terms of authoring experience.
• CJ: thinks it’s underrated because it isn’t just inline styles — it’s a full design system. 1 in p-1means not ‘one pixel’ but a specific unit, and it’s the same across m-1, my-1, etc. Once you get that, design becomes more consistent.
• CJ: open props can have different variable names for every type of thing (unlike Tailwind)
• Wes: Tailwind is a de facto standard in that every single project that uses Tailwind and the same scale. AI is very good at writing Tailwind

💡TypeScript

• CJ: TypeScript takes longer to write, and there’s a learning curve. Still it helps you to understand interfaces and let you expect what value it can have.
• Wes: beneficial for DX and preventing bugs. During migration from JS to TS, found so many edge cases.
• Scott: TypeScript saves a lot of time, except when fighting with crazy generic types from library code.